The area under the jurisdiction of towns and villages in the desert is so large that it is unimaginable. Villages within a hundred kilometers of each other are considered neighbors, and villages even if they are hundreds of kilometers away are still under the jurisdiction of the same township.

These fellow villagers did not celebrate the Lantern Festival at home, but came over to inquire about purchasing planting machinery. This shows how urgent they are.

After Yuan Jin finished speaking to the old party secretary, he left the nurse on the viewing platform to take care of his mother, and went downstairs to ask the old party secretary and those who came to see her to go to the guest room.

Most of the houses in the village are bungalows. In order to have a better view, she transformed the original house into a two-story building and reinforced the walls. The second floor houses her workshop, bedroom, her original mother's bedroom and recovery room.

, physical therapy room.

Half of the first floor is a reception room, and the other half is a dining room, kitchen, and a real-life testing area reserved for household robots.

After leading everyone into the guest room, Yuan Jin asked them to sit down, made a pot of tea himself, brought it to the guest room, and sat down with a smile.

The old party secretary first introduced her to the identity of the people who came down, and told her about the situation in the town where they lived.

The town is also under the jurisdiction of Gusha County and is more than 320 kilometers away from Qiutou Village. The terrain of the town is slightly flatter than that of Qiutou Village, and the water shortage is much more serious than that of Qiutou Village.

The local sand prevention and control effect is not as good as that in Qiutou Village. Most of the Haloxylon ammodendron trees planted cannot survive due to lack of water.

The people sow and sow again and again, and work hard but without any results.

I heard that there is a sapling planting machine here. Some time ago, they selected a few people to drive over to see the planting effect. After going back, the village discussed and decided to raise funds to buy a planting machine to save manpower to replenish the water of the planted saplings and increase the number of saplings.

survival rate.

"They want to raise funds to buy the machine. I don't know the price of the machine, so I just brought them to you." The old party secretary picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea. He explained with some embarrassment why he came to her during the holidays, "They

I came here in the afternoon and have been watching the planting machinery planting trees. I originally wanted to bring them over tomorrow morning, but they can’t wait.”

I heard that there are some very convenient Haloxylon ammodendron tree planting machines in Qiutou Village. People were sent from villages and towns nearby to see how fast the planting machines work.

It's his fault for saying this.

After the testing of the planting machinery, he was so drunk that he couldn't help but show off in his circle of friends and made bold remarks.

The planting machinery in Qiutou Village was given to them by Yuanjin for free. It is impossible for other villages to give it to them for free. This machine is not cheap at first sight. He brought people here tonight not to let Yuanjin give them the planting machinery for free.

Just to help with recommendations.

"It doesn't matter, I'm not busy anyway." Yuan Jin frowned, "The cost of this machine is close to one million, and the factory sales also need to consider transportation and other expenses. The final price is about two million. If we raise funds to buy it, each

Each household contributes about 10,000 to 20,000 yuan."

The cost of mobilizing villagers to raise funds to purchase is not low.

The per capita income here is about 10,000 yuan a year. After excluding the purchase of fertilizers, seeds, saplings, and other expenses, there is not much left over.

Spending more than 10,000 yuan in cash to buy a piece of machinery at once, or everyone participating in the fund-raising, is not only stressful, but may also create new conflicts.

Machinery can be given to them for free, but it can't be mentioned right away. It has to be done in a roundabout way.

"Is it so expensive?" The old party secretary didn't expect the price of this machine to be so high, and was a little stunned for a moment.

He thought that such a machine would only cost 500,000 to 600,000 yuan. If you divide it up, each household would be able to afford a few thousand yuan.

"The price is indeed not cheap. Everything from the machine's rollers to the robotic arms needs to be specially customized, which invisibly increases the cost a lot." Yuan Jin took the laptop placed on the coffee table, opened the design software, and called up the planting machinery.

Design the drawings and give them to the old branch secretary to read.

She adjusted the drawing design alone dozens of times. The production process also went through countless improvements, large and small. From the installation of the robotic arm to the matching of working procedures, it took more than 5 months.

Thanks to the factory director's cooperation, it was finally produced.

"Let me tell them." After reading the design drawings of the planting machinery, the old branch secretary turned to the person who brought him and said, "This machinery is very expensive. If you raise funds to buy it, each household will need to pay about 14,000.

many."

I heard that each household costs more than 14,000, and the visitor's face instantly became solemn.

Although everyone's income has increased in recent years, it is still a bit difficult to spend more than 10,000 yuan at once.

Yuan Jin took their reactions into consideration, picked up the tea cup, took a sip of tea, and said slowly, "I have a way for them to use planting machinery without having to pay this money."

I heard that it didn't cost any money, so everyone's attention was focused on her.

"Kaiyuan Technology has a public welfare project. If you submit an application based on the actual situation of the village, you can apply for desert planting machinery." Yuan Jin smiled and continued, "This project contains many contents, and desert greening is only one of them.

item."

After more than 10 days of trial use, the three planting machines sent over have added 12 robotic arms to each machine to increase the planting speed. So far, the stability seems to be good, but the planting speed is not as high as in the factory's test area and during the test.

When tested in the factory's test area, about 5,000 plants can be planted every hour, and nearly 60,000 plants can be planted in 10 hours a day.

Most of the terrain in Qiutou Village is sand dunes, and the planting rate in places where grass grids are not required can only reach 40,000 plants per day at the fastest. In areas where grass grids are laid, less than 30,000 plants can be planted in a day.

This speed is already very fast compared to manpower.

This is just the amount of planting for one machine. The first three machines currently produced are all in Qiutou Village, and one day's work is equivalent to half a month's work by villagers.

The old branch secretary also thought her proposal was good, but he was worried that the application would not be approved. "This is a good idea, but it may not be easy to apply."

In recent years, many companies have come to the desert to plant Haloxylon ammodendron trees. You can see the signs of their trees everywhere. These companies do not use machinery. Most of them ask villagers to plant the trees.

Before meeting Yuan Jin, he had never heard of desert planting machinery.

When Yuan Jin told him, he actually didn't believe that such a machine could really be built. Now these three machines are parked outside Qiutou Village. How many saplings did each household buy and the planting area?

Where is it? After the harvest is divided, the machinery is used to plant.

The speed is several times faster than before, saving a lot of manpower to water the saplings planted before.

The old party secretary thought that there was a large area of ​​desert outside the village where grass grids had not yet been laid and Haloxylon ammodendron trees were planted. He thought that if it was easier to apply, Qiutou Village would also apply for a few more machines to operate at full capacity.

"It's not difficult to apply." Yuan Jin looked at a few people who were obviously interested, and the smile on his face slowly widened, "You tell me clearly the specific situation in the town, and I will help you write the application. The machine requires about one

It will take about a month to be shipped here. Before the machine is shipped, you can lay down the grass squares first."

When the visitor heard that he was willing to help with the application, he immediately became excited.

The leader, who looked like a cadre, said to the old branch secretary in dialect, "We will go back now to prepare the materials and send them over tomorrow morning. Please help us thank this girl. It doesn't matter even if the application is not approved. We will try our best to find ways to raise funds."

Money to buy.”

Yuan Jin didn't need the old party secretary to translate, and he felt relieved immediately after hearing what he said.

The three machines here in Qiutou Village can basically meet the needs. The population there is larger, and the factory can be arranged to quickly produce four machines for them.

After seeing off the old party secretary and his party, Yuan Jin returned to the observation deck.

The original mother was lying in the wheelchair as if she was asleep. The moon hung high in the sky and the stars were shining brightly.

The cold wind howls in the wilderness, and the desert under the moonlight is quiet and dangerous.

She sat down next to her original mother, picked up the tablet on the coffee table, opened the design software, and quickly sketched out the design draft.

The first jewelry exhibition of Kaiyuan Jewelry will be held in Qiutou Village.

…

The spring in the desert is not easy. The wind is stronger, and the rolling sand and dust that covers the sky and the sun swallow the village like a giant beast, and the whole world is dark.

A wind blows for three or four days, sometimes for a week, and the sky is covered with dust.

The villagers stayed at home and did not go out. Yuan Jin walked directly through the corridor from the second floor every day, went to the observation deck and looked at the design draft of the billowing dust with distant eyes through the floor-to-ceiling glass.

After these days lasted for more than two months, the boundless desert faintly revealed dots of green, slowly smearing the desert picture of spring.

Yuan Jin began to leave the small building where he lived, and drove his original mother to see the mechanical work near the sand dunes where the villagers planted saplings.

Three extremely large desert planting machines followed behind the desert sand-fixing truck, making rumbling noises, and planted Haloxylon ammodendron saplings neatly into the paved grid.

She sat in the driver's seat, looked quietly for a while with the telescope, tilted her head and said to her original mother in the passenger seat, "The Haloxylon ammodendron tree is very tenacious. The seeds can germinate when they encounter water. If you wake up,

Maybe you can see the yellow sand all over the mountains and plains filled with green."

The original mother still had no reaction.

After arriving in the desert, her physical condition remained the same as before, with no obvious changes in either good or bad condition.

Even if I gave her acupuncture every night, she would still be unaware.

Yuan Jin raised his hand to help her tidy up the broken hair on her forehead, curved her lips and smiled, then said, "We have to live here for a long time, and there's nothing you can do if you don't get used to it."

People without consciousness will not feel the difference no matter where they live, but life will not stop because of unconsciousness.

Her soul seemed to have given up struggling, showing no signs of loosening, and losing the ability to feel pain.

Maybe it's a good thing not to feel pain.

Just like myself, if I do the same thing day after day for a long time, there will be no pain or too much happiness.

The cell phone was ringing loudly at this moment.

Yuan Jin picked up the phone and looked at the number, leaned back, answered the call with a smile, "Has the result of the competition come out?"

The jewelry design competition came to an end in the past two days, and tonight seemed to be the finals and awards ceremony. She was busy discussing investment projects with the management of Tianji Capital and didn't pay much attention to it.

"Boss, do you want to hear good news or bad news?" the assistant said weakly, "or should we listen together?"

Yuan Jin picked up his tablet, unlocked the Internet, and said in a casual tone, "Do you think I won't know what happened if you don't tell me?"

"Of course not." The assistant said anxiously, "The good news is that our Kaiyuan Jewelry team has entered the finals. The bad news is that the works have been changed, and the internationally renowned jewelry designers who were invited criticized their works for not having a sense of design and just stacking up craftsmanship.

, I may not get a place in tonight’s final.”
To be continued...